A German haematologist may have found a potential cure for AIDS, though the cost and complexity of the treatment makes unlikely it will be tried on a large scale.
The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
A Nobel prize-winning AIDS specialist said the work was “proof of principle” for gene therapy.
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